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G. Edward Birchfield

Professor Emeritus

Selected Publications

Birchfield, G.E., M. Wyant and H. Wang, A coupled ocean-atmosphere box model of the Atlantic Ocean: A bimodal climate response, J. Marine Systems, 1, 197-208, 1990.

BirchfieldG.E., H. Wang and M. Wyant, A bimodal climate response controlled by water vapor transport in a coupled ocean-atmosphere box model, Paleoceanography, 5, 383-395, 1990.

Birchfield, G.E., and W.S. Broecker, A salt oscillator in the glacial ocean? Part II: A 'scale analysis' model, Paleoceanography, 5, 835-843, 1990.

Wang, H., G.E. Birchfield, An energy-salinity balance climate model: Water vapor transport as a cause of changes in the global thermohaline circulation, J. Geophys. Res., 97, 1992, 2335-2346.

Birchfield, G.E., Comments on "Two stable equilibria of a coupled ocean-atmosphere model", by S. Manabe and R.J. Stouffer, J. Climate, 6, 1992, 175-177.

Birchfield, G.E. and M. Ghil, Climate evolution in the Pliocene-Pleistocene as seen in deep sea 18_O records and in simulations: Internal variability versus orbital forcing, J. Geophys.Res., 98, 1993, 10385-10399.

Wang, H., G.E. Birchfield, and J. Rich, Hydrological cycle scenarios, deep ocean circulation and century/millenium climate change: A simulation study using an ocean-atmosphere ice sheet model, In: Ice in the Climate System, edited by W. Richard Peltie, NATO-ARW Volume, Springer-Verlag, 1993, 237-255

Birchfield, G.E. and H. Wang, Century/Millennium oscillations of the ocean-atmosphere and continental ice sheets, J. Geophys. Res.,99, 1994, 12459-12470.